Project Coordinator Women's Empowerment

1.      Background ACTED is a French humanitarian NGO, founded in 1993, which supports vulnerable populations, affected by humanitarian crises worldwide. ACTED provides continued support to vulnerable communities by ensuring the sustainability of post-crisis interventions and engaging long-term challenges facing our target populations, in order to break the poverty cycle, foster development and reduce vulnerability to disasters. Our interventions seek to cover the multiple aspects of humanitarian and development crises through a multidisciplinary approach which is both global and local, and adapted to each context. Our 4 000 staff is committed in to responding to emergencies worldwide, to supporting recovery and rehabilitation, towards sustainable development. Our teams in the field implement some 380 projects in 34 countries covering the following sectors emergency relief, food security, access to health, education and training, economic development, microfinance, advocacy, institutional support, and regional dialogue, cultural promotion. 2.      Functions The Project Coordinator will be fully responsible of the management and implementation of ACTED’s livelihoods and protection program targeting vulnerable women funded by the French Embassy (Centre de Crise). This will include: Program planning, staff supervision and reporting on daily implementation, and coordinating with relevant stakeholders (SDC, local authorities, finance officer, program staff, and targeted community beneficiaries). The Women’s Empowerment Project Coordinator shall be responsible for: 2.1  Assessment and selection of project beneficiaries -       Developing criteria for inclusion in the program and assessment methodology in coordination with the SDC in Jbeil and ACTED Program Director; -       Informing local stakeholders (authorities, community representatives) of the project and criteria to participate; -       Developing assessment tools and training enumerators; -       Coordinating enumerator work plan and daily monitoring against planned targets; -       Ensuring assessment data is compiled and cleaned; -       Analysing assessment results and generating beneficiary lists for both life skills training and NFI distribution. 2.2  Implementation of life skills training activities and NFI distributions -       Organize procurement of all necessary project inputs in accordance with the budget available; -       Collaborating with SDC trainer to develop the training program, to be validated by SDC director and ACTED Program Director. -       Develop detailed workplan and overseeing the implementation of life skills training activities, updating work plan accordingly on a weekly basis; -       Payment of training attendee incentives on a bi-weekly basis; -       Create and oversee inventory of NFI produced through training activities; -       Coordination and documentation of distribution of NFI produced through training activities to vulnerable families; -       Organization of graduation ceremonies; -       Collaborate with SDC to document lessons learned and develop sustainability plan; -       Providing daily and weekly progress reports and a bi-weekly update of the project management framework; 2.3  Implementation of protection outreach campaign -       Design protection awareness raising campaign in collaboration with SDC, building on SDC’s ongoing activities -       Design ToT program for protection campaign -       Develop and formalize protection information networks and referral mechanisms for GBV cases in collaboration with MoSA’s service providers, SDC sub-branches and relevant NGOs (eg. Caritas). 2.4  Coordination and external representation -       Attending area-level coordination meetings to ensure harmonization with sector strategy, government regulations and other related activities in the area;   -       Bilateral coordination with CBOs and other NGOs to prevent duplication and increase outreach, notably in information campaigns. -       Attend and report to the GBV Working Group 2.5  Compliance with ACTED FLAT procedures   -       Ensuring compliance of partner on ACTED finance, logistics, and audit procedures in collaboration with the FLAT Officer and monitoring of proper implementation by local partner (SDC); -       Review of Budget Follow Up and liaising on regular basis with finance department to ensure all project expenditures are in line with budget forecasts; -       Supporting the AME department in conducting monitoring and evaluation activities; -       Liaising with any other departments to ensure FLAT procedures are respected for all project activities. 2.6  Accountability to Communities and Beneficiaries The Women’s Empowerment Project Coordinator is responsible for ensuring that all relations with the communities we work are conducted in a respectful and consultative manner.  Due attention must be paid to ensuring that communities are adequately consulted and informed about ACTED programme objectives, activities, beneficiary selection criteria, and methodologies.  This is the responsibility of every ACTED staff member. 3.      Knowledge, skills -          Fluent in Arabic, with excellent written and verbal English skills; -          Able to work in an international context and with people from various backgrounds; -          Excellent interpersonal skills and external relations; -          Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail; -          Strong written expression and basic computer skills; -          Independent, adaptable, flexible and hard-working; -          Strong humanitarian motivation and understanding of international assistance; -          Diplomacy and ability to build positive relationships with local partners and authorities is essential. 4.      Qualifications and Experience -          Bachelor Degree with experience in project management and humanitarian aid, life-skill training, and/or protection/social work; -          Strong understanding of protection issues and related confidentiality frameworks; -          Proven experience in dealing with local stakeholders; -          Prior experience using basic computer software required, notably in word and excel; -          Prior experience in staff training or capacity building preferred;  -          Previous experience working with a variety of stakeholders in humanitarian or development aid.